Project Champion

Maria W. Norris argues that as Prevent is becoming more embedded in British society, it is becoming more secretive. In particular, there is little transparency in relation to how Prevent is currently implemented and what is being funded.

ARSHAD ISAKJEE: Surveillance is always controversial, but the cameras installed as part of Project Champion, which were designed to create a security ‘net’ around Birmingham’s Muslim communities, caused widespread anger leading to a successful campaign by local residents to have the cameras removed.